5 January 2015 Arar attack

The 5 January 2015 Arar attack was a terrorist attack carried out on a border guard patrol in Saudi Arabia on the border with Iraq by four Islamic State assailants. Two Saudi guards and a general were killed while two were wounded, and two attackers were killed - the other two were soon killed as well.

History
Since June 2014, Saudi Arabia boosted border security as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria took over large parts of Iraq and Syria, and joined the United States-led coalition against ISIS. Four armed assailants attempted to enter Saudi Arabia from Iraq at the town of Arar on 5 January 2015, and they fired on a border guard patrol. One of the attackers was killed and the other was captured, but the captive detonated his explosives and killed three officers and wounded two more. The other two attackers were later tracked down, with one being gunned down and the other blowing himself up.